Month: March 2017

There is something magical with the spring and how all nature wakes up from the winter sleep. We went to the Karlsruhe Castle park to enjoy the 24 degrees and the beautiful day.
Here, for the first time, Adrian experienced to lay on the grass and to touch it with his small little hands. It was fun to watch his reaction. He was like a little scientist checking it all out touching, smelling, watching. He was playing with it for some 10 minutes which is an eternity in his world. He loved it 🙂Ima nešto čarobno kad proljeće dođe i priroda se probudi iz svog zimskog sna. Otišli smo do Karlsruhe palače i uživali smo u 24 stepena i u prelijepom danu. Ovdje je po prvi put Adrian legao na i dirao travu. Bilo je zanimljivo gledati njegovu reakciju. Bio je poput malog naučnika mirisao je, dirao je i gledao je travu. Igrao se travom sigurno nekih 10 minuta što je u njegovom svijetu jedna vječnost. Pravo je uživao 🙂

It is funny how languages can provide kind of a status to a person. I have for example met a lot of East European people that do not teach their children the mother tongue. They come up with some weird arguments of how a child has to learn one language properly first or they do not need it anyway because they live in Germany / Sweden. The people around us will also not say anything to it. If the situation would be that the parents speak German, English or French people would consider you an idiot not teaching your children your language.
I have also through my whole life never ever met a person being sad having been thought an additional language be it swahili or English. However, I have met a lot of people that where sad that their parents have NOT taught them their mother tongue. Some of them where really disappointed and meant that the parents should have left the choice to them whether to use or not to use the language.
My husband and I have decided to teach Ada Swedish and Bosnian. She also learns German in kindergarten. Additional to that she speaks some English also, probably from the cartoons.
It is soo amazing how fast she switches between the languages and how well she speaks all the languages. One thing though that fascinates me most is how logical she thinks and it is funny how the language would sound without the irregular verbs…cool 🙂
Interesantno je kako jedan jezik može dati vrstu statusa jednoj osobi. Npr. srela sam mnogo istočnih evropljana koji neće da nauče svoju djecu svoj maternji jezik. Za to imaju čudne argumente poput ne treba djeci taj jezik jer ionako žive u Švedskoj / Njemačkoj. Ljudi u okolini im ništa ne kažu na tome jer se radi u “pogrešnom jeziku”. Da je situacija slijedeća da roditelj priča njemački, engleski ili francuski ljudi bi te smatrali budalom što ne ućiš dijete svoj jezik. Tako da ima neka vrsta “jezične diskriminacije”. Šteta jer je to velik gubitak i za djecu i za društvo.
Isto tako nikad u životu nisam srela nekog da mu je smetalo što su ga roditelji naučili jedan dodatni jezik bio to swahili ili engleski. Ali sam ih dosta srela koji su bili razočarani što ih roditelji nisu maternji jezik naučili. Čest argument kod ove djece je da su im roditelji trebali ostaviti tu odluku da oni odluče da li će pričati svoj jezik ili ne.
Muž i ja smo odlučili da Adu učimo i švedski i bosanski. U vrtiću uči njemački. Isto je od nekud pokupila malo engleskog. Vjerovatno od crtana.
Fascinirajući je kako brzo mijenja jezike kad priča i kako svaki jezik dobro priča. Ali jedna stvar što mene najviše fascinira je logika kojom je jezik napravljen. Ada prati logiku i samim tim griješi kad treba biti nepravilni glagol, tako da ustvari čuješ kakav bi trebao jezik zaprave biti da je skroz logičan…cool 🙂

Last Thursday to Sunday we got visit from our very good friends Suada and Đenan with their kids. The weather was great so we spent the whole Friday in Karlsruhe city center. We went to Schloss Karlsruhe and its beautiful botanical garden. Ada stayed at home from kindergarten to spend time with her old friends.
On Saturday we went to Strasbourg. I love it. I could stroll the streets for hours. This time we mostly ran after the kids but still the ambient was cute. One thing I will remember from this trip was the whole day fight between the children of who can stand at the standing board of the buggy. Funny how one remembers things like that.

Last night I had a nightmare or rather one can call it night torture. Before sleeping the music channel was running on tv and there came Jennifer Lopez hit I ain´t your mama. During my sleep this song was running again and again and again. When I woke up that was the first thing I was thinking of….stupid song!!!

When I was a kid I rememeber how my mother washed the plastic bags to reuse them. I don’t know if they were expensive or if it was just the way of thinking….why throw perfectly good things.
When I see the tons of garbage my family itself produces I wonder how we can decrease these huge amount of trash. For the sake of the future of our children and because no one wants to have a dump in front of their house.
Imagine in Germany and Sweden there are around 90 milion people altogether. If every person uses just 1 plastic bag per year that means we throw 90 milion bags per year. It is literally a mountain of plastic bags.
I have until now used minimum 1-2 bags per DAY. Imagine 90 millions people using x 2 bags x 365 = 65 700 000 000 bags per year!!! Just in Sweden and Germany…
I have decided from now on to try to minimize the amount of plastic bags we use and appel you to reduce as much as possible. Even if is just one bag less per year it will be millions of bags less per year…Sjećam se kad sam bila mala kako je moja mama prala kese i ponovo su se koristile. Ne znam ako su kese bile skupe ili je samo način razmišljanja bio drugačiji. Zašto baciti nešto što je čitavo.
Kad vidim brdo smeća koje samo moja familija proizvodi dođe mi da zaplačem. Zbog budućnost naše djece i zbog činjenice da niko neće da ima smetište pred svojim pragom hoću da barem ja koliko mogu smanjim svoju potrošnju kesa.
Do sad sam koristila najmanje 1-2 kese na dan. Zamislite 90 million ljudi koji koriste x 2 kese x 365 = 65 700 000 000 kesa godišnje!! Samo u Švedskoj i Njemačkoj…
Odlučila sam od sad da smanjim potrošnju plastičnih kesa koliko mogu i apeliram i vas da to uradite. Iako je samo jedna kesa to bude ukupno milione kesa manje….

Ada loves to bake and play in the kitchen. To bake with my daughter usually ends up with a kitchen where it looks like a bomb has exploded but she gets so happy to bake that I cannot resist her wish 🙂
Here is Ada´s first “Semla”.

Last weekend we had great visit. Uncle Senad, auntie Samra and her sister Jasmina came to visit Adrian (and Ada) for the first time since he was born. Ada was excited and was talking about it the whole day.
We also decided to celebrate her 3 year birthday also because we were all sick last weekend and she was soo disappointed that she didn’t´t get any ballons. This time she got it all and she was so happy.
Especially in moments like these I really miss Sweden and being close to family..